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Worldly judgment will ultimately afflict one who slanders others.
Tzara'at is a unique skin affliction was caused by gossip and
evil talk. One should be afraid of slander; a slanderers' tongue is called
a sharp sword. Just as malchut is a place of harsh judgment and must
be dealt with very carefully, so too we must be aware of the consequences of
misusing the mouth which relates to the sefira of malchut.
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The Zohar teaches how the lower realms are purified by the removal of excess hair.
A person with constricted, self-centered consciousness causes black
hairs to grow on the higher
partzufim of the
sefirot in the spiritual worlds.
When those return to proper consciousness of the Divine, they cause this
hair to be shorn off from Zeir Anpin; all judgments are sweetened and the
negative forces below in the physical world have no place to establish a
foothold.
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The Zohar explains that leprous plagues affected only those on a high spiritual level.
Although such a person has rectified everything that he can, there may still remain a small quantity of spiritual waste that causes a supernatural infection in his outermost levels - his skin. Thus can
a person on such a high spiritual level become struck with leprosy.
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The Zohar teaches that souls descend from their root above in order to rectify below.
When the soul descends from the treasury of souls in malchut of Atzilut to enter into this world in the body of a person, it first descends to the Garden of Eden. It sees the honor of the spirits of the righteous that stand, row upon row, and sees the extent of their reward. Next, it goes to Gehinom to see the punishment of the wicked and that no mercy is shown them.
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